Back during 1946, Wally Johnson started to create the markets for the aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He accomplished this by starting a business which was referred to as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a really gifted mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access equipment when he started searching for a a way to paint his home.
When Mr. Johnson was embarking on his home painting project, he had a futile search for scaffolding which can deal with the uneven ground that surrounded his home. After being really discontented with his choices, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
In that very same year, the Snorkel Company was established within St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing an innovative new elevating boom lift to the market. The equipment was made 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 the year 1977. This specialized 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 business and achieve worldwide dominance with his scaffold. After he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and make the world's first self-propelled aerial lift.
Mr. Johnson during the year 1972, opened a factory in Selma, where he created 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 revenue of the company.
Wallace Johnson passed away in the year 1980. At that time, the company UpRight Inc. was sold but his inventive and pioneering spirit lived on. During the year 1994, UpRight launched the world's very first micro-scissors. They went on to pioneer the self-propelled mast lift, the TM12.