Wally Johnson, back in the year 1946, created the markets for both aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He accomplished this by establishing a business which was called UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely skilled mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, California. 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 fruitless search for scaffolding that could deal with the uneven terrain which surrounded his home. After being extremely unsatisfied with his options, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
The Snorkel Company was also established the very same year within St. Joseph, Missouri. This small business helped to revolutionize the new elevating boom lift. The machine was produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The very first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel in 1977. This specialized product line did not take long to become the main business for the company.
Wallace Johnson rapidly catapulted to the top of the industry with his new scaffold. Once he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and create the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
Mr. Johnson in the year 1972, opened a factory within Selma, where 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 income of the company.
Wallace Johnson passed away in the year 1980. At that time, the company UpRight Inc. was sold but his pioneering and inventive spirit lived on. During 1994, UpRight introduced the first micro-scissor within the world. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.