Wally Johnson, back during the year 1946, created the markets for both scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He accomplished this by starting a company which was referred to as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely skilled mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, California. He stumbled upon access machines when he began searching for a solution to painting his house.
While Mr. Johnson was embarking on his home 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 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 machinery was produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than 20 years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The very first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel during 1977. This specialized product line did not take long to become the main business for the company.
It did not take long for Wallace Johnson to catapult to the top of the business and achieve worldwide domination with his scaffold. Once he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and invent the world's very first self-propelled aerial lift.
During 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory within Selma. There he manufactured the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this new and exciting machine exploded onto the marketplace, the ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the main source of revenue of the company.
Wallace Johnson passed away in 1980. At that time, the company UpRight Inc. was sold but his inventive and pioneering spirit lived on. In the year 1994, UpRight introduced the very first micro-scissor in the globe. They went on to pioneer the self-propelled mast lift, the TM12.