Wally Johnson, back during 1946, created the markets for both aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He did this by establishing a business which became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a really skilled mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access machinery when he started searching for a a way to paint his house.
While Mr. Johnson was embarking on his house painting project, he had a fruitless search for scaffolding which could deal with the uneven ground which surrounded his house. After being very unsatisfied with his choices, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
In that very same year, the Snorkel Company was founded in St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing a revolutionary new elevating boom lift to the market. The machinery 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 in 1977. This specialized product line did not take long to become the company's main business.
Wallace Johnson rapidly catapulted to the top of the industry with his new scaffold. When he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and make the very 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 machinery exploded onto the marketplace, the innovative product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of revenue.
Wallace Johnson passed away during the year 1980. At that time, the company UpRight Inc. was sold but his pioneering and inventive spirit lived on. During 1994, UpRight introduced the world's first micro-scissors. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.