Permutability of injectors with a central socle in a finite solvable group

In response to an Open Question of Doerk and Hawkes [5, IX Section 3, page 615], we shall show that if Zπ is the Fitting class formed by the finite solvable groups whose π-socle is central (where π is a set of prime numbers), then the Zπ-injectors of a finite solvable group G permute with the members of a Sylow basis in G. The proof depends on the properties of certain extraspecial groups [4].