Back during the year 1946, Wally Johnson started to create the markets for the aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He accomplished this by establishing a business which became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely skilled mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access machinery when he began searching for a solution to painting his home.
While Mr. Johnson was embarking on his home painting project, he had a fruitless search for scaffolding which could handle the uneven ground that surrounded his house. After being really discontented with his choices, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
The Snorkel Company was also established the very same year in St. Joseph, Missouri. This small business helped to transform the new elevating boom lift. The equipment was made for rescue and firefighting work. In less than twenty years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
During the year 1977, Snorkel sold its very first self-propelled lift. 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 global dominance with his scaffold. After he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and make the world's very first self-propelled aerial lift.
During 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory within Selma. There he manufactured the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this new and exciting machinery 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 pioneering and inventive spirit lived on. During the year 1994, UpRight launched the world's very first micro-scissors. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.