It IS a Brick Press

Some time ago I posted this picture (please excuse the poor quality), with a request for identification.

There was a suggestion it was a brick press, or maybe a press for a hard cheese, like parmesan.

This is to announce that the brick press is now 99% certain.

Because why else would you find this as a hazard on the mini golf course at a former brickworks in Adelaide?

Amazing what you can find when you are not looking for it. There is no maker's plate on this one, and it has three holes in the plate on the wheel, which ours does not. Otherwise it is almost identical.

LATE NOTE: The more we think about it, this simply cannot be a brick press, as it is too slow, and there are much better systems around. But it is obviously somewhere in the process. We don't think it is for compression testing of bricks, as the chamber is enclosed, and there is not even a rudimentary gauge.

So, could it be for something like testing clay, before it is made into bricks? To see what a measured amount presses down to?

All suggestions welcome.