Back during 1946, Wally Johnson began to create the markets for the scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He did this by establishing a company that was known as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a very skilled mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, Phoenix. He stumbled upon access machinery when he started searching for a a way to paint his house.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to search for capable scaffolding when he started a house painting project. Current scaffolding was not able to handle the uneven terrain on his land. After being really unsatisfied with his choices, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
The Snorkel Company was also founded the very same year in St. Joseph, Missouri. This small company helped to transform the new elevating boom lift. The machinery was produced for firefighting and rescue work. In less than 20 years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
In 1977, Snorkel sold its 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 business and achieve global domination with his scaffold. Once he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and create the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the world.
In 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory within Selma. There he created the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this exciting and new machine exploded onto the marketplace, the ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the main source of income of the company.
During the year 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 the year 1994, UpRight introduced the first micro-scissor within the globe. They went on to pioneer the TM12, that is the self-propelled mast lift.