Selson Air Jacks have been an Australian-made product since 1959. The original
design was invented by Matthew Seltz, a German immigrant residing in Melbourne,
Australia.
Matthew Seltz designed the lift jack and promptly sold it to his network of
family and friends who resided around the world. The Selson Jack although
popular for many years, lacked the investment required to develop and take
the product to a professional international platform.
When Matthew Seltz & his partners decided it was time for retirement the business along with all the
intellectual property was purchased by Clyde Industries in 1988. Clyde
Industries, a large Australian diversified engineering group, positioned the
Selson business into the Clyde-Apac manufacturing operations. Clyde-Apac were
already an established name in the automotive segment with the then largely
popular 240/241 & 245 hydraulic jacks, trolley jacks and other automotive accessories. This
created the level of manufacturing investment Selson required to take what was
a very good cottage industry manufacturing idea into a volume reproducible
quality product range.
Today Selson Air Jacks remain as reliable and popular as they have in the past,
combining the precision manufacturing that German initiative can provide with
excellent Automotive standard quality and process control.
The Selson Air Jack is a proven product both in Australia and in the United
States, where several distributors have been established to sell the product.
Selson is approved for use with NATO, and after extensive testing is now
regularly used by the US Armed Forces.
