Back during the year 1946, Wally Johnson started to create the markets for both the scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He did this by establishing a company which was known as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a very skilled mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, California. He stumbled upon access machines when he began looking for a solution to painting his house.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to look for capable scaffolding when he started a house painting project. Current scaffolding could not handle the uneven ground on his land. After being really discontented with his options, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower complete with adjustable legs.
In that very same year, the Snorkel Company was established in St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing an innovative new elevating boom lift to the market. The machine was made for rescue and firefighting 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 1977. This specialized product line did not take long to become the main business for the company.
It did not take long for Wallace Johnson to catapult to the top of the industry and achieve worldwide domination with his scaffold. After he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and make the first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
Mr. Johnson in the year 1972, opened a factory within Selma, where he made 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 revenue of the company.
In the year 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time also. Mr Johnson's pioneering and inventive spirit did continue to live on. In the year 1994, UpRight launched the first micro-scissor within the globe. They went on to pioneer the self-propelled mast lift, the TM12.