Wally Johnson, back in the year 1946, created the markets for both aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He accomplished this by establishing a business that became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a very gifted mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, California. He stumbled upon access machines when he started searching for a a way to paint his house.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to search for capable scaffolding when he started a house painting project. Existing scaffolding could not handle the uneven ground on his property. After being very discontented with his options, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
In that very same year, the Snorkel Company was established in St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing a revolutionary new elevating boom lift to the market. The equipment was produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than 20 years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel during the year 1977. This specialized product line did not take long to become the company's main business.
It did not take long for Wallace Johnson to catapult to the top of the industry and achieve worldwide domination with his scaffold. When he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and create the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
Mr. Johnson in 1972, opened a factory within Selma, where he produced the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this new and exciting equipment exploded onto the marketplace, the ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of income.
During 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time too. Mr Johnson's pioneering and inventive spirit did continue to live on. In the year 1994, UpRight launched the very first micro-scissor in the globe. They went on to pioneer the self-propelled mast lift, the TM12.