Over 900 VAL14s were built, from 1963 to 1966, with the largest orders coming from Wallace Arnold of Leeds, Seamarks of Westoning, Don Everall of Wolverhampton, and Bartons.

Some VAL14s were given bus bodywork,[1] including 10 by Marshall of Cambridge for British European Airways, and 10 by Strachan for North Western.

In the film, the coach was raced around RAF West Malling by Ringo Starr himself against sports cars and other modes of transportation, driven by other tourists.

A Bedford VAL also featured in a devastating crash for the purposes of filming for the ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 1969.

The plot involved some characters on a trip to the Lake District, but the coach's steering fails and it harshly crashes into a tree.