| 1st VIOLINS | 2nd VIOLINS | VIOLAS | 'CELLOS | DOUBLE BASSES | OBOES | HORNS | TENOR TROMBONES |
| Manoug Parikian, Joint Leader |
David Wise, Principal |
Herbert Downes, Principal |
Raymond Clark, Principal |
James Edward Merrett, Principal |
Sidney Sutcliffe, Principal |
Dennis Brain, Principal |
Stanley Brown, Principal |
| Max Salpeter, Joint leader |
Gerald Emms | Maurice Luban | Alexander Kok | Adrian Beers | Stanley Smith | Neil Sanders | John Ashby |
| Jack Kessler, Sub-Leader |
Rowland Sirrell | Bernard Davis | David Frangeon- Thomas |
Gerald Brooks | Peter Newbury | Edmund Chapman | Arthur Wilson |
| Jessie Hinchliffe | Charles Verney | Anne Wolfe | John Holmes | Desmond Wrench | Peter Graeme | Alfred Cursue | BASS TROMBONE |
| William Monro | Frank Bilbe | Roy Patten | Tom Hill | Geoffrey Clark | Aubrey Thonger | Frederick Mansfield | |
| Marie Wilson | Jean Lefevre | Leo Birnbaum | Peter Beavan | John Honeyman | CLARINETS | TRUMPETS | TUBA |
| Nathan Comras | Kathleen Sturdy | Muriel Tookey | Norina Semino | James Bateson | Frederick Thurston, Principal |
Harold Jackson, Principal |
Philip Catelinet |
| Hans Geiger | Ernest Rutledge | Samuel Rosenheim | Nelson Cooke | Samuel Sterling | Archie Jacob | Dennis Clift | |
| Peter Mountain | Denis Brown | Lance Lange | Jem Marchant | Victor Wright | Bernard Walton | TIMPANI | |
| Ernest Scott | Kathleen Tierney | Lindo Southworth | Maurice Westerby | Herbert Howarth | Wilfred Hambleton | James Bradshaw | |
| Arthur Davison | Pierrette Galeone | Kenneth Essex | Jacques Piretti | FLUTES | BASOONS | PERCUSSION | |
| Derek Collier | Michael Freedman | Maurice Meek | Ambrose Gauntlett | Gareth Morris, Principal |
Cecil James, Principal |
Harry Eastwood | |
| Ivor McMahon | Hugh Maguire | Vincent Groves | Ronald Gillham | Paul Draper | Cecil Norrington | ||
| Alfred Davis | Colin Sauer | Margo Slebbing | George Crozier | William Waterhouse | |||
| Michael Jones | Neville Marriner | PICCOLO | CONTRA BASSON | ||||
| Norman Chapple | Ferix Kok | Arthur Ackroyd | Peter Parry |
