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I hadn't heard of that before (seems like a waste of a good carrier)
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Rick; I guess they just used carriers that were somehow lost in battle and quickly converted for another role.
The Overloon Conger started life as a Mortar carrier as mentioned in this thread. There was some evidence of fire damage; we presume this could be wartime damage and could be the reason the carrier came available to be converted to a Conger by Chubb in Wolverhampton.
After the IJzendijke disaster, some of the Congers (at least one ) were reused as trailers or "gutted carriers", after all of the Conger stuff was removed. There is a picture of one of them being towed by a Churchill Croc. This picture clearly shows it's an ex-Conger as the extra armor panels on the sides of the former drivers compartment were retained, allthough the rear armor plate was removed to create enough room for equipment.
To me it seems the two in Coevorden are not ex-Congers, because the extra armor is missing. Of course this could have been removed, but.....this was welded in place and I don't think there is any need to remove this for the role of trailer.
Rick, an AVRE towing a gutted carrier loaded with a fascine would look awesome! You know.....everyone has a Cromwell, but nobody has this combo
Alex