Wally Johnson, back in 1946, created the markets for both aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He accomplished this by establishing a business which became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a very gifted mechanical engineer who resided in Berkeley, CA. He stumbled upon access machines when he began looking for a a way to paint his home.
When Mr. Johnson was embarking on his house painting project, he had a fruitless search for scaffolding which can handle the uneven terrain which surrounded his house. After being extremely unsatisfied with his choices, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
The Snorkel Company was also founded the very same year in St. Joseph, Missouri. This small business helped to transform the new elevating boom lift. The equipment was produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel during 1977. This particular product line did not take long to become the company's main business.
Wallace Johnson rapidly catapulted to the top of the business with his new scaffold. When he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and create the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the globe.
In the year 1972, Mr. Johnson opened a new factory in Selma. There he produced the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this new and exciting machine exploded onto the marketplace, the innovative product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of income.
In 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 1994, UpRight launched the very first micro-scissor in the globe. They went on to pioneer the TM12, that is the self-propelled mast lift.