Back during the year 1946, Wally Johnson began to create the markets for the scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He did this by starting a business that was known as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely gifted mechanical engineer who resided in Berkeley, California. He stumbled upon access equipment when he began searching for a solution to painting his home.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to look for capable scaffolding when he started a home painting project. Existing scaffolding could not deal with the uneven ground on his land. After being really discontented with his choices, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower complete with adjustable legs.
During 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 machinery was produced for firefighting and rescue work. In less than 20 years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
During the year 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 industry with his new scaffold. When he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and invent the world's very first self-propelled aerial lift.
Mr. Johnson in the year 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 main source of income of the company.
In 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time as well. Mr Johnson's pioneering and inventive spirit did continue to live on. In 1994, UpRight introduced the first micro-scissor within the globe. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.