Back during the year 1946, Wally Johnson began to create the markets for both the aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He accomplished this by starting a business which became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely gifted mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, California. He stumbled upon access machinery when he started searching for a a way to paint his home.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to search for capable scaffolding when he started a home painting project. Existing scaffolding could not deal with the uneven terrain on his property. After being very discontented with his choices, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
During that very same year, the Snorkel Company was founded within St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing an innovative 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 very first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel during the year 1977. This specialized product line did not take long to become the main business for the company.
Wallace Johnson rapidly catapulted to the top of the industry with his new scaffold. Once he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and make the first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
During 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory within Selma. There he made the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this exciting and new equipment exploded onto the marketplace, the innovative product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of income.
In the year 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. During 1994, UpRight introduced the very first micro-scissor within the world. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.