William Laight Applin, was a Herald painter at the Wolverton Carriage Works, and, lived on the Stratford Road opposite the Works. He worked there in the late c 1893 – 1898. He was employed by the London & North Western Railway as a Herald painter and Draughtsman, and one of his specific tasks was the heraldry on the Royal Carriages as well as general carriage signwriting. He died in Wolverton in 1918.