Wally Johnson, back during 1946, created the markets for both scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He accomplished this by establishing a company which was known as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a really skilled mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access equipment when he started looking for a a way to paint his home.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to look for capable scaffolding when he started a home painting project. Current scaffolding could not handle the uneven ground on his property. After being extremely unsatisfied with his options, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower complete with adjustable legs.
In that very same year, the Snorkel Company was founded 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 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The very first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel during the year 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. After he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and make the first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
Mr. Johnson during 1972, opened a factory in Selma, where 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 the year 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time as well. Mr Johnson's inventive and pioneering spirit did continue to live on. During the year 1994, UpRight introduced the first micro-scissor within the globe. They went on to pioneer the self-propelled mast lift, the TM12.