Back during the year 1946, Wally Johnson began to create the markets for both the scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He accomplished this by starting a business that was referred to as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a very skilled mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, California. He stumbled upon access machinery when he started looking for a solution to painting his house.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to look for capable scaffolding when he began a home painting project. Existing scaffolding could not deal with the uneven ground on his land. After being really unsatisfied with his choices, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower complete with adjustable legs.
During that same year, the Snorkel Company was established within St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing a revolutionary new elevating boom lift to the market. The machine was made for firefighting and rescue work. In less than twenty years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel during the year 1977. This particular product line did not take long to become the company's main business.
Wallace Johnson quickly catapulted to the top of the business with his new scaffold. After he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and create the first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
In the year 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory within Selma. There he created the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this new and exciting equipment exploded onto the marketplace, the innovative product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the main source of income of the company.
During 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time also. Mr Johnson's inventive and pioneering spirit did continue to live on. In the year 1994, UpRight introduced the very first micro-scissor within the globe. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.