But another day he repeated his question, and I replied, 'Well, it was because, while the big and the little were fighting, I crept up between them, carried out my enterprise, and obliged everybody.'" This, however, did not satisfy Mr.Drummond, who asked Bianconi to write down for him an autobiography, containing the incidents of his early life down to the period of his great Irish enterprise.

Bianconi proceeded to do this, writing down his past history in the occasional intervals which he could snatch from the immense business which he still continued personally to superintend.
But before the "Drummond memoir" could be finished Mr.Drummond himself had ceased to live, having died in 1840, principally of overwork.

What he thought of Bianconi, however, has been preserved in his Report of the Irish Railway Commission of 1838, written by Mr.Drummond himself, in which he thus speaks of his enterprising friend in starting and conducting the great Irish car establishment:-- "With a capital little exceeding the expense of outfit he commenced.
Fortune, or rather the due reward of industry and integrity, favoured his first efforts.

He soon began to increase the number of his cars and multiply routes, until his establishment spread over the whole of Ireland.

These results are the more striking and instructive as having been accomplished in a district which has long been represented as the focus of unreclaimed violence and barbarism, where neither life nor property can be deemed secure.