Back during 1946, Wally Johnson began to create the markets for the scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He attained this by establishing a company which was called UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a really skilled mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access machines when he began looking for a solution to painting his home.
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 house. After being very unsatisfied with his choices, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
During that same year, the Snorkel Company was established within St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing a revolutionary new elevating boom lift to the market. The equipment was produced for firefighting and rescue work. In less than twenty 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 attain worldwide dominance with his scaffold. When he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and create the first self-propelled aerial lift in the world.
During the year 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory within 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 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 world's very first micro-scissors. They went on to pioneer the self-propelled mast lift, the TM12.