Back during 1946, Wally Johnson began to create the markets for the scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He accomplished this by establishing a company which became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a really gifted mechanical engineer who hailed from Berkeley, Dallas. He stumbled upon access machines when he began looking for a solution to painting his home.
While Mr. Johnson was embarking on his house painting project, he had a fruitless search for scaffolding that could deal with the uneven ground which surrounded his house. After being very unsatisfied with his options, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower complete with adjustable legs.
In that very same year, the Snorkel Company was established in St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing a revolutionary new elevating boom lift to the market. The machine was produced for firefighting and rescue work. In less than 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel in 1977. 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. After he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and make the very first self-propelled aerial lift in the world.
Mr. Johnson in 1972, opened a factory in Selma, where he manufactured the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this exciting and new machine exploded onto the marketplace, the innovative product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of revenue.
During 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time too. Mr Johnson's inventive and pioneering spirit did continue to live on. In 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.