Wally Johnson, back during 1946, created the markets for both scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He attained this by establishing a business which was known as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a really gifted mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, California. He stumbled upon access machinery when he started looking for a a way to paint his home.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to search for capable scaffolding when he started a house painting project. Existing scaffolding could not handle the uneven ground on his land. After being extremely unsatisfied with his options, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
During that very same year, the Snorkel Company was founded in St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing a revolutionary new elevating boom lift to the market. The machinery was made for firefighting and rescue work. In less than 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
In 1977, Snorkel sold its first self-propelled lift. This particular 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 global domination with his scaffold. After he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and invent the first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
During the year 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory in Selma. There he produced the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this exciting and new machinery exploded onto the marketplace, the innovative product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of revenue.
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 very first micro-scissor in the globe. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.