Back in the year 1946, Wally Johnson began to create the markets for both the scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He did this by starting a business which was called UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a really gifted mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access machinery when he started searching for a solution to painting his home.
When Mr. Johnson was embarking on his house painting project, he had a futile search for scaffolding which can deal with the uneven terrain which surrounded his home. After being extremely discontented with his options, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower along with adjustable legs.
The Snorkel Company was also founded the very same year within St. Joseph, Missouri. This small company helped to transform the new elevating boom lift. The machine was produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than twenty years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel during the year 1977. This particular 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 industry and attain worldwide domination with his scaffold. After he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and make the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
In 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory in Selma. There he created the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this exciting and new machinery exploded onto the marketplace, the ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of revenue.
During 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time too. Mr Johnson's pioneering and inventive spirit did continue to live on. In the year 1994, UpRight launched the very first micro-scissor in the world. They went on to pioneer the TM12, that is the self-propelled mast lift.