Back in the year 1946, Wally Johnson started to create the markets for the aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He attained this by establishing a business that was referred to as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely gifted mechanical engineer who hailed from 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 began a house painting project. Existing scaffolding could not deal with the uneven terrain on his property. After being really discontented with his options, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
The Snorkel Company was also founded the same year in St. Joseph, Missouri. This small business helped to revolutionize the new elevating boom lift. The equipment was produced for firefighting and rescue work. In less than 20 years, 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 business and achieve worldwide dominance with his scaffold. When he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and create the world's very first self-propelled aerial lift.
Mr. Johnson in the year 1972, opened a factory in Selma, where he created 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 income of the company.
During the year 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 world's very first micro-scissors. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.