Wally Johnson, back during 1946, created the markets for both scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He did this by starting a business that became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely gifted mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access machines when he started looking for a a way to paint his house.
While Mr. Johnson was embarking on his house painting project, he had a fruitless search for scaffolding that could handle the uneven terrain that surrounded his home. After being extremely unsatisfied with his options, 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 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.
During 1977, Snorkel sold its first self-propelled lift. This particular product line did not take long to become the company's main business.
Wallace Johnson quickly catapulted to the top of the business with his new scaffold. Once he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and make the world's very first self-propelled aerial lift.
During the year 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory within Selma. There he produced the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this new and exciting machine exploded onto the marketplace, the ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of income.
Wallace Johnson passed away during the year 1980. At that time, the company UpRight Inc. was sold but his inventive and pioneering spirit lived on. In the year 1994, UpRight launched the first micro-scissor within the world. They went on to pioneer the TM12, that is the self-propelled mast lift.