Wally Johnson, back in the year 1946, created the markets for both scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He did this by establishing a company that was referred to as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was an extremely skilled mechanical engineer who resided in Berkeley, California. He stumbled upon access machinery when he began searching for a solution to painting his home.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to search for capable scaffolding when he started a house painting project. Existing scaffolding could not deal with the uneven ground on his land. After being extremely discontented with his options, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
In that same year, the Snorkel Company was founded in St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing an innovative new elevating boom lift to the market. The equipment was produced for firefighting and rescue work. In less than twenty years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel in the year 1977. This specialized 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 domination 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.
Mr. Johnson in 1972, opened a factory within Selma, where he manufactured the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this exciting and new equipment exploded onto the marketplace, the ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the main source of revenue of the company.
Wallace Johnson passed away in 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 introduced the world's first micro-scissors. They went on to pioneer the TM12, that is the self-propelled mast lift.