Wally Johnson, back during 1946, created the markets for both aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He accomplished this by starting a business which was referred to as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely gifted mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access equipment when he began looking for a solution to painting his home.
While Mr. Johnson was embarking on his house painting project, he had a futile search for scaffolding which can deal with the uneven terrain that surrounded his home. After being very discontented with his choices, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
During 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 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 during the year 1977. 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 global dominance with his scaffold. Once he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and invent the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the world.
Mr. Johnson in the year 1972, opened a factory within Selma, where he manufactured 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 income of the company.
Wallace Johnson passed away during the year 1980. At that time, the company UpRight Inc. was sold but his pioneering and inventive spirit lived on. In 1994, UpRight introduced the first micro-scissor in the globe. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.