Back during 1946, Wally Johnson began to create the markets for both the scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He attained this by starting a business which was referred to as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a very skilled mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access machines when he started searching for a a way to paint his home.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to look for capable scaffolding when he began a home painting project. Current scaffolding could not handle the uneven terrain on his land. After being really unsatisfied with his choices, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower along with adjustable legs.
During that 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 machine was produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than twenty years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
During the year 1977, Snorkel sold its very first self-propelled lift. This particular 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 achieve worldwide domination with his scaffold. Once he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and invent the first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
In 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory in Selma. There 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.
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 in the world. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.