Wally Johnson, back in 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 an extremely gifted mechanical engineer who resided in Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access machinery when he started searching for a solution to painting his house.
When Mr. Johnson was embarking on his house painting project, he had a futile search for scaffolding which can handle the uneven ground which surrounded his home. After being really discontented with his choices, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower along with adjustable legs.
In that 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 produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
During 1977, Snorkel sold its first self-propelled lift. 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 attain global domination with his scaffold. After he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and invent the world's very first self-propelled aerial lift.
Mr. Johnson during 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 ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the main source of revenue of the company.
During 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time as well. 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, that is the self-propelled mast lift.