Back during the year 1946, Wally Johnson started to create the markets for both the aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He attained this by starting a company that became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely skilled mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access equipment when he started looking for a solution to painting his home.
When Mr. Johnson was embarking on his home painting project, he had a fruitless search for scaffolding which can handle the uneven terrain which surrounded his home. After being extremely unsatisfied with his choices, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
In that very 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 machinery was made for firefighting and rescue work. In less than 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel in 1977. This particular product line did not take long to become the main business for the company.
Wallace Johnson quickly catapulted to the top of the business with his new scaffold. When he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and make the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
In 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory within Selma. There he produced 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 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 pioneering and inventive 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 self-propelled mast lift, the TM12.