The bending equipment described in Part I is used to study the behaviour of a sample of galvanised steel sheet. The sheet is known to have an internal stress distribution and to exhibit ageing. Tensile and bend behaviour is measured for the sheet in the a s-received condition, after ageing at 170 o C and 300 o C and after ageing and stress relieving at 450 o C. In the bend test, attention is focussed on the imposed outer fibre bending stress at the limit of linear, elastic bending. In the a s-received condition, this is substantially less than the tensile yield stress, but increases rapdly with ageing and for ageing at 300 o C it is approximately 200 M Pa greater than the lower yield stress in the tensile test. Samples treated at 300 and 450 o C showed maxima in the moment/curvature characteristic and unstable k inking was observed in bending. The bending moment versus curvature diagrams presented indicate material characteristics of importance in technological forming processes which are not easily identified in tensile tests.