Sage, there wasn't any vin on the frame until after '55, and no telling what Wayne would have done about the original factory ID tag, but back then the engine number was generally used as the 'vin' to title vehicles
"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir "When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me Some TF series details & TF heater pics